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A new intercontinental missile being tested by Vladimir Putin's Russia has been mistaken for an alien invasion.
Confused witnesses thought the bright object in the sky - which had a 'wiggly tail' - was an extraterrestrial ship .
In fact it was a RS-12M Topol missile, which was being tested by the Russian military as tensions heighten over North Korea.
The weapon was fired from the Kapustin Yar testing range in southern Russia, and hit a target in a remote area of Kazakhstan.
An agreement between the former Soviet state and Putin's Russia allows the latter to shoot test missiles into the Kazakh countryside, but it caused plenty of confusion among locals.